Owen Can Fire Newcastle To Safety – Alan Hansen

53 year-old Pundit Alan Hansen, the former Liverpool and Scotland stalwart, has said today that captain Michael Owen is the player who can fire Newcastle to safety this season.

Alan Hansen – Owen can be savior for Newcastle

Alan was a 6’2″ commanding center-back, and played for Liverpool 620 times from 1977 through 1991, before becoming a football pundit, who works currently with Alan Shearer.

Alan talked today about how he thinks Michael Owen, now fit again , can save Newcastle this season:

“Newcastle are a massive club but they certainly aren’t too good to go down.”

“It’s been a real rollercoaster season for them with managerial change, disputes with the owner and injuries, but one thing that could see them safe is the return of Michael Owen.”

“Michael is a natural born goalscorer, and when you find yourselves at the wrong end of the table, you need someone who can take their chances.”

“In Michael, Newcastle have a player who knows exactly how to put the ball in the back of the net.”

“He too has suffered from his fair share of injuries, but if you had to count on someone to fire you out of trouble, there’s no doubt it would be Michael Owen.”

We don’t always agree with what Hansen says, but we sure hope he’s right here, and quite honestly that’s why Michael Owen is paid so much money at the club, around £110/week by all accounts, so he can deliver in times like these.

I think Alan’s right… but not yet. We know from bitter experience that Owen takes 3 or 4 games to get sharp again. But I do believe that he will average well over a goal very other game for the rest of this season. Our other strikers may be more exciting getting close to the goal, but Owen is in a different class when it comes to putting it past the keeper.

Owens a class player, in a side who can actually thread in through balls he finishes with ease. He has done many times this season.

Problem being the only time we actually pass it anywhere near his feet hes got a 6’3 defender on his heels. Rest of the time he has to try to win headers. Its moronic. None of them can thread in the through balls owen feeds off accept perhaps Barton.

What are you talking about!? Since Owen lost his pace all he could do was finish, and he can’t even do that anymore as he needs about 4 chances to score one. Overrated waster and there will NOT be much interest in him come the summer. Not from the big teams anyway.

Think owen is good but he aint great, think he should be out leave in the summer, he prob will nick a few goals between now and the end of the season and will help keep us up, but he aint worht his 100k a week or the 80k a week we are meant to be offering him,

What are you talking about!? Since Owen lost his pace all he could do was finish, and he can’t even do that anymore as he needs about 4 chances to score one. Overrated waster and there will NOT be much interest in him come the summer. Not from the big teams anyway.

We dont create any chances-thats a big problem-we just about always concede so we tend to need more than 1 goal+this is not the Owen that played for Liverpool, injuries have robbed him of a lot of pace.

He seems to struggle more now when plays as an out and out striker. Its getting hard for him to find space and shake off defenders.

His success last year was in arriving late in the box, when he wasn’t racked from midfield.

He has always missed chances – even at Liverpool he was never a ‘one goal from one or two chances’ striker.

What we have failed to see for us though, is what he can really do with good service from midfield. More often than not, the midfield has been poor, and unable to create openings, such as sliding a ball through the defence for him to run onto.

That in itself would make him adjust his game. As a striker, you end up adjusting your game to what the midfield are delivering, so its not really all his fault if he isn’t looking the same striker as he once was. He has never been a striker to create a goal out of nothing.

I’m well passed it, but put ME in top side and I’ll beat the offside trap now and again and score from five yards out. But for the rest of the game I would be a passenger. The only time I saw the Little Waster play properly was under KK of all people!

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